Offbeat


Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
The Night Circus
Nothing to See Here
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
The Invoice
Saga, Volume 1
Survivor
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Catch-22
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Skinny Legs and All
Choke
Breakfast of Champions
Still Life with Woodpecker
Beyond Belief by Jenna Miscavige HillUnder the Banner of Heaven by Jon KrakauerEscape by Carolyn JessopUnorthodox by Deborah FeldmanLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren  Hough
Small, Offbeat Religion Memoirs
262 books — 296 voters
Magic America by C.E. MedfordFactotum by Charles BukowskiThe Wasp Factory by Iain BanksFight Club by Chuck PalahniukThe Elephant Tree by R.D. Ronald
Quirky is the New Black
146 books — 67 voters

The Library Book by Susan OrleanSally Stanford by Alton PryorThe Hillside Strangler by Ted SchwarzThe Longest Trek by Grace Lee WhitneySan Francisco's Playland at the Beach by James R. Smith
Offbeat California History
22 books — 3 voters

Michael Ben Zehabe
Although my words were temperate and well-expressed, they seemed to repulse Ava. My timing has never been precise. Ava regarded me the way a widow spider examines a housefly. She laughed loudly, a vulgar Occidental laugh, the laugh of a person who wraps their next meal in silk before draining their lifeblood. But, I have been known to imagine things.
Michael Benzehabe, Persianality

Michael Ben Zehabe
I'm sure love has its own means of survival, its preferred host, its ideal temperature, its own law of thermodynamics. Why else would women crave hot baths? ...more
Michael Benzehabe, Persianality

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